The clown king of novelty infrastructure fantasies has once again stolen the limelight with his preposterous plan for a 22-mile bridge across the Channel. [...]
But none of this matters. In a world where Johnson got as far as flushing £37m of public money into the Thames on another fantasy project, the Garden Bridge, a great Channel crossing could easily be conjured into being.
— The Guardian
The Guardian's architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, responds to the former London Mayor's suggestion to build a 22-mile bridge across the Channel and physically connect the European Union with the brexiting island kingdom (on top of the already existing 31.35-mile Channel tunnel).
Let's just say, Wainwright isn't a fan and pens an angry roundup of prominent architects that either have designed other Johnson mega-visions, like Heatherwick's Thames Garden Bridge and Lord Foster's Thames Hub, or have a history of going over the initially proposed project budget a tad or a thousand.
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you think 40 years later is cheaper to do a bridge than dig another tunnel? just because time has passed? I wouldn't venture driving on such bridge at all, have you seen the waters? It's brutal.
Dame Judi Dench as Zaha Hadid
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The more I think about this the more I think I should do it. We're in a serious "Why the hell not?" phase in society, so why the hell not?
Because dumping resources into upotian fantasy projects in a time when existing infrastructure is dangerously undermaintained and social safety nets are crumbling is insanely irresponsible. ...is why not.
TFW your ex wants to reconnect on FB. France is like, nah we good Brexit Boris, go connect with Ireland on the IRA express ha
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